A life wild and perilous
mountain men and the paths to the Pacific
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1997 - Henry Holt and Co., New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
98,000 words, Guess
Page Count
392 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL654992M
- ISBN-100805033041
- OCLC Control Number36186243
- OCLC Control Numberlifewildperilous00utle
- Library of Congress Control Number97000006
and 2 more
- Goodreads718540
- LibraryThing761891
Classifications
- DDC978
- LCCF592 .U87 1997
Description
Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the Trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality in 1803-1805, the West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and traders such as Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick, and Jedediah Smith opened paths through the snow-choked mountain wilderness of the American West. Collectively, they came to know every stream, mountain crag, canyon cataract, waterless stretch of plain, refuge of game, and Indian hideout.
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- Biography.
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